Today was The Connection's last broadcast on WBUR. A poster to Mark's Media Log reports:
... What's with the funeral dirge passing for the final hour of the Connection today? My God, if the show wasn't dying you'd want to commit suicide after hearing such DEPRESSING music.
Lisa is not sad to see WBUR cancel the post-Lydon Connection, but is sad to see how far 'BUR has fallen since it booted Lydon in a contract dispute in 2001 - and happy to see Lydon back as a podcaster/NPR host:
... Failure is obvious, and boring. The answer Jane Christo gave, "No," is always the safe answer. But success among people — love, companies, collaborations — is fundamentally mysterious. Even the people who are in it don't understand it. You can't replicate what you can't understand. And Yes is sublime.
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